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Learning about migration

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Learning about migration

These pupils of Kaiaua School on the Firth of Thames received gifts of carved birds from schools in Brisbane, Australia and Narashino in Japan, which are along the migratory route known as the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. Schools exchanged information about the birds and the feeding sites they use.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 20 October 2004 (NZH-1000695)

by Glenn Jeffrey

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Christina Troup, Bird migration – International arrivals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7220/learning-about-migration (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 2 March 2009.